Being a strong advocate of institutional neutrality and also advocating for using political ideology as a key criterion for hiring are not logically consistent positions.

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Red CI creates careful engineers. Careful engineers create green CI. Green CI creates careless engineers. Careless engineers create red CI.

oliver@eikopf.com · 2d ago

the masculine urge to use unstable apis

The manufacturers put these cash for 5⭐️ offers right in the product packaging right next to the instructions. And if you mention it in a review, Amazon will remove it saying reviews must be about the product and not the conduct of the seller. It’s infuriating.

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

The amount of reading you have to do on Reddit to background check any purchase over $50 is wild. Side note: you absolutely cannot trust Amazon reviews because sellers routinely give away free product and cash in exchange for five star reviews.

Periodic reminder that this labeler brilliantly highlights for you the accounts that are either clearly bots or whose owners desperately need to log off every now and then bsky.app/profile/stec...

Love how Google Calendar doesn't know to automatically remove a former employee from a standing meeting, but then if I move the meeting, Gmail knows they don't exist and yells at me quintuple-fold

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

Must be a slow business day at Taco Bell

I am gonna wear out part of my phone screen tapping this

Tits McGee@scientits.bsky.social · 6d ago

Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts

We are running a natural experiment on what happens when a big chunk of the country decides not to get vaccinated, go to college or put money in their 401ks.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

HANNITY: Elon Musk talked about Americans not even needing to save for your retirement like we have historically because of the abundance AI will create. Do you believe that? BESSENT: I do, but I think I would change the timeline. Elon is so far ahead of the curve

SpaceX IPO bagholders are paying you a 2% interest premium over HYSAs!

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

X Money is launching in the US starting today

My kids have measles, I can’t afford gas, I can’t breathe the air, and I have explosive diarrhea. But at least now I can use Grok to see my coworkers naked

love a good wikipedia crawl started looking up something about James Dolan, ended up learning about the original purpose of WD-40 (the Atlas ICBMs were not painted, in order to save weight, and needed an oil to keep them from rusting up)

I have ascended

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

I think of how the Pulitzer family sold all their papers (including my local) for $1.5b in 2005. Stood up and cashed their chips while it was as good as it would ever get, right before the programmatic ad hellscape took root

Chris Vannini@chrisvannini.com · 2w ago

The least-talked-about factor in the decline of local news and reading is how horrible and unusable so many of their websites are. It's just the truth, and it's been awful for a decade, so people moved on.

Olive Garden's owners say that you do not have to show ID to get pasta at an Olive Garden. A guy who shits himself in public and struggles to pass basic cognitive tests says that you do. For busy restaurant-goers, it can be hard to know who to trust.

First thing every morning when Zoom's meeting calendar hits its "it's now tomorrow" state management bug that has persisted for years, I get the boost of confidence I need about my own bug backlog

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

Warm, Encouraging Email From CEO Quickly Identified As Phishing Attempt https://theonion.com/warm-encouraging-email-from-ceo-quickly-identified-as-phishing-attempt/

I am shocked, shocked, to learn the Trump Mobile phone lacks the hardware support for roaming outside the US www.theverge.com/tech/963382/...

I spent a week using the Trump phone — it sucks

This is not a serious phone.

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there is a cohort of men who resent the responsibilities and obligations of adulthood — of the fact that you owe things to other people. it is a fundamentally childish impulse that they have reconfigured as the height of masculinity, and i think it informs the parasocial attraction to platner.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 4w ago

what a fucking asshole

It’s easy for them to itemize each fee on your monthly bill when they send it but oppressively difficult and burdensome to ask them to list the fees when you sign up arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees

FCC to let ISPs stop listing all passthrough fees, give single "up to" price.

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You're laughing... I can't withdraw my Bonk from Kraken and you're laughing?

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kraken has temporarily suspended deposits and withdrawals of Bonk due to an ongoing incident affecting the token, according to its website.

Hey! @nicoleackermans.com + I, two STEM women, created a new show for @dtnsshow.bsky.social Experiment Week geared towards under-rep'ed gender identities in STEM, talking about our fields, things that interest us, science/tech "vibes". It's called "Technical Tea". dailytechnewsshow.com?p=51353

Technical Tea – DTNS 5304 Experiment Week

Huyen and Niki talk tech and science. Discussing their favorite news this month and interrogate AI’s place in learning. Starring Dr. Niki Ackermans, Huyen Tue Dao MP3 Download Show Links: Nik…

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I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

whenever I see Claude say "Cogitating" all I can think of is this '80s banger

I've wasted my life...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

GOP Rep. Marlin Stutzman claims that inflation over 4 percent (a three year high!) is "just a sign of a strong economy"

Quickest $115 I ever spent

Little Alex Horne@alexhorne.bsky.social · last mo.

One Warm Prawn is back. We’ve made this limited edition Taskmaster print, signed by me and Greg! There are only 150 available, with all proceeds supporting Teenage Cancer Trust. If you’d like one, head to shop.teenagecancertrust.org/products/taskmaster-merchandise-series-6-episode-3-print